About Me
- About Me: A man of knowing a lot on something, none on some other stuff, and a bit on everything else
Books
- Favorite Books: 1) 趙無眠--百年功罪; 2) 李英明--閱讀中國 3) James Lull--Media, Communications and Power; 4) 孫隆基 -- 中國文化的深層結構; 5) Steven Levitt--Freakonomics; 6) 尊子--乜議員正傳 (可惜無 Update 過); 7) 王賡武 (eds.) 香港史新篇 (in 2 volumes); 8) Jack Gray, Rebellions and revolutions : China from the 1800s to 2000; 9) James Monaco: How to read a film; 10) Gordon Matthews-- Global culture/individual identity : searching for home in the cultural supermarket; 11) The Oxford Handbook of Paryers, Savings and Quotations ; 12) Tim Hartford-- The Undercover Economist (lists continuning)
- Favorite Genres: books in history, geography and social sciences; biography; books in transporation
- Favorite Characters: Any narratives and analysis of real events and people
- Favorite Quotes: The Oxford Book of Quotations would have got all my favourite quotes!
- Recent Reads: Political Development of Hong Kong--By Ma Ngok
Food
- Favorite Cuisine: Japanese
- Favorite Dishes: Hainan Chicken Rice!
- Favorite Desserts: Cheese Cake! (Super kawaii!)
- Favorite Drinks: Coca-Cola
- Favorite Junk Foods: Harsh Brown at McDonalds
- Best meal ever: Steak at Paris........Las Vegas
- My Original Recipes: You don't want to eat it!
- Favorite Restaurants: 華麗園 @ CWB (No Longer exist!); the old Queen's Cafe (as advertsied in WKW's Days of Being Wild); 龍記 @ WC (No longer exist!) Ichiban; @ CWB; 馬達 @ HV, and of course the good old 新釗記s
- Foods I hate: Anything I don't dare to touch (i.e. most of the restuarants in SZ!)
Movies
- Favorite Movies: Forrest Gump, catch Me If You Can, Grounhog Day, Kill Bill, The Matrix, Goodfellas, Heat and of course Godfather I an II
- Favorite Actors: Robert DeNiro, Kritsen Dunst, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson
- Favorite Directors: 杜琪峰, Martin Scoresese
- Favorite Genre: Comedy, Gangster
- Favorite Soundtracks: The Godfather
- Movie Quotes I say all the time: Keep your friends, but your friends closer!
- Movies I can watch over and over: It's pointless to answer this, of course my favourite movies and the movies I would watch over and over again would be the same, right? Stupid question!
- Actor that would play me in a movie: Ben Stiller
Style
- Where I shop: I shop (books), therefore I think....
- Brands I love: Coca-Cola, Routledge, Sage Pub, OUP, CUP, SUP,
- I like to wear: Birthday Suit (ha ha!)
- Can't live without: My books, DVDs, CDs and Computer (obviously)
- Prized Possessions: All the stuff that I owed from others
- Guilty Pleasure: Once at Oxford during college, spent over 5xx pounds at Blackwells
Television
- Favorite Shows: Currently Hotel babylon, Lost, , Desparate Housewives (Currently given up local TV, apart from RTHK ones). Previously the The OC, The X-Files
- Favorite Channels: RTHK, BBC, Channel 4 (UK), Pearl
- Favorite Reruns: 大時代, 還看今朝, 男親女愛
- Most Addictive Show: Tonight Show with Jay leno, Seinfeld
- Favorite Late Night Talk Show: Jay Leno, 陶傑
- Favorite Episode: Chris Pattern calling some legislators"a bunch of waxkers" in the Last Governor (香港人的集體回憶)
- Characters you relate to: Train Man
- Favorite Theme Song: 六合彩
- Show I Secretly Watch: 心繋家國
- Show I wished wasn't cancelled: 亞視評論; 百年中國 (joking); 集體回憶, 香港冇問題, 龍門陣, 香港8x系列 (認真)
More About Me
- Nicknames: Whoever you are (as my boss called me..)
- Nationality: I belong to where I wanted to be
- Religion: (MPW) Money, Power and Women (of course not la!)
- Heroes: Anyone that deserves my respect
- Interests: Discussion and read about the following: cultural affairs, current events, history, geography, politics. movies, TV, music, books, gadgets,
- Expertise: Blow water, self-proclaimed "culture vulture", working like a dog, sleeping (and reading) after working like a dog
- Occupation: My work, my books, DVDs, TV and PCs...
- Industry: Climbing the Word Squares
Music
- Favorite Artists: 軟硬, Madonna, Ayu
- Favorite Albums: 廣播道Fans殺人事件
- Favorite Genre: dance beat
- Favorite Songs: currently 男子組--聽落去好有 feel
- Favorite Lyrics: 中國製造-- in 廣播道Fans殺人事件 (Track 4)
- Songs for Roadtrips: 對面的女孩看過來
- Songs I hate: that Titanic theme song!
- Guilty Pleasure: Singing "baby Once More Time" in the Shower
- Songs I repeat the most: 就算Repeat, Repeat,這旋律先算最強
- Band I wish I was in: 軟硬
Video Games
- Games I Play: Civilization; Sim City; Sim Tower; 三國志
- Favorite Characters: 三國志--自製君主
- Favorite Classic Arcade Games: Pac-Man, Tetris
- Most Addictive: 三國志
- Proudest Achievements: Playing 三國志 for 24 hours non-stop..
- Favorite Soundtrack: Tetris (dee-di-di-dee-di-di-dee-dee-di-di...)
Travel
- Places I love: New York City, Las Vegas, London, Cannes, Paris, Rome, Brussels, the Akihabaru District in Tokyo
- Places I've been: Western Europe, Japan, the US, South Africa, Singapore, Taiwan, and of course Shenzhen
- Places to see before I die: Experiencing the Midnight Summer in the Arctic Circle
- Dream Vacation: round the world with....
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- Name: Kelvin
- Member Since: 7/5/2006
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